Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761531AbXEWGke (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 02:40:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756285AbXEWGkZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 02:40:25 -0400 Received: from mail-gw1.sa.eol.hu ([212.108.200.67]:53834 "EHLO mail-gw1.sa.eol.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755120AbXEWGkY (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 02:40:24 -0400 To: spotter@cs.columbia.edu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-reply-to: <46537C27.4050200@cs.columbia.edu> (message from Shaya Potter on Tue, 22 May 2007 19:26:31 -0400) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory References: <46537C27.4050200@cs.columbia.edu> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:39:24 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 16 > > Others might suggest accessing streams, resource forks or extended > > attributes through such an interface. However this patch only deals > > with the non-directory case, so directories would be excluded from > > that interface. > > here's a possibly stupid question. What about symlinks to dirs? namely > the shells tend to treat them differently if postfixed with a slash or not. Right. So it only works on non-directory, non-symlink objects. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/